Senior Analytics Transformation & AI Enablement Leader

Cencora; Pennsylvania; On-site; USD 111,000 - 221,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Benefits package

Career development programs

Job summary

Cencora is seeking a Principal of Analytics Transformation & AI Enablement to lead strategic transformation across its Analytics organization in a large enterprise setting. The role emphasizes executive communication, cross-functional execution, and scaling new AI-enabled workflows to drive productivity and business impact.

The position requires 8+ years in data analytics or data engineering, with proven leadership of multi-team initiatives and strong program management skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or higher in data-related field as required or equivalent experience.
• Master's degree preferred for analytics leadership and transformation.
• Proven experience leading multi-team analytics platforms, models, and products.
• Experience in data & analytics strategy within large enterprise environments.
• Program management experience is highly desired.
• Strong organizational, budgeting, and leadership skills.
• Ability to influence via clear communication and workflow design.
• Experience building communities of practice and coaching mechanisms.

Responsibilities

• Act as a transformation catalyst for the Analytics organization, connecting strategy, innovation, people, process, and technology to accelerate business outcomes.
• Drive the organization's AI and Agentification agenda by identifying, prioritizing, and scaling new ways of working that increase productivity, quality, and business impact.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to Analytics leadership, helping shape organizational strategy, operating models, communications, and execution priorities.
• Build the connective tissue across a diverse analytics organization, ensuring teams operate as a unified enterprise capability rather than independent functional groups.
• Translate vision into action by driving adoption of change at scale, establishing sustainable operating mechanisms, and ensuring strategic initiatives achieve measurable results.
• Guides analytics strategy, multi-year roadmaps, and investment priorities across data platforms, tooling, and products.
• Coordinates delivery of high-impact initiatives from problem framing through productionization and lifecycle management.
• Communicates stakeholder alignment on tradeoffs, implications, and decisions to secure adoption across business and technology groups.
• Builds communities of practice, code and pattern libraries, and coaching mechanisms to scale capability across teams.

Skills

Transformation leadership

Analytics strategy

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Change management

Executive communication

Program management

Cloud & data platforms

Education

Bachelor's degree in data science/CS/engineering or related field

Master's degree in data science/CS/engineering or related field

PMP/CAP/CDMP and cloud certifications (AWS/Azure/Google)

Job description

Cencora is seeking a Principal of Analytics Transformation & AI Enablement to lead strategic transformation across its Analytics organization in a large enterprise setting. The role emphasizes executive communication, cross-functional execution, and scaling new AI-enabled workflows to drive productivity and business impact.

The position requires 8+ years in data analytics or data engineering, with proven leadership of multi-team initiatives and strong program management skills.